1. Food Finders Food Bank
Food Finders works to minimize hunger in mid-north Indiana by locating excess and damaged food and nonfood items and redirecting these otherwise wasted items to nonprofit agencies that serve low-income Hoosiers.

2. Food Finders works with local, state and nation networks to bring the best food and supplies possible to those in need.

3. Programs
Food Distribution
Backpack

4. OUR SERVICE AREA Benton Carroll Cass Clinton Fountain Fulton Howard
Jasper
Miami
Montgomery
Pulaski
Newton
Warren
Tippecanoe
Tipton
White

5. THE NEED
13.2% of all Americans now live in hungry and food-insecure households.
Of the 600,000 Hoosiers in need, nearly 20% are children who are not receiving sufficient food to remain healthy, grow and learn.
All Lafayette School Corporation elementary schools have more than 50% free and reduced eligible.

6. Lafayette Backpack Programs
School
Murdock
Miller
Miami
Vinton
Glen Acres
Oakland
Mayflower
Hershey
Edgelea
Earhart
Battle Ground
# Served Free & Reduced % % % % % % % %
20 (pantry) %
30 future %
30 future %

7. Major Funders Greater Lafayette Community Foundation Alcoa Foundation
Lafayette Noon Rotary
Cargill, Inc
Lafayette Life Foundation
Old National Bank
Harrison Kiwanis
Various churches, groups and individuals

8. Who do we help?

9. CHILD HUNGER STRATEGY
How Great is the Need
· There are over 18 million children who receive free or reduced price meals through the National School Lunch Program and this number continues to grow.
· It is assumed that children in need are accessing multiple programs to help meet their food needs – resources must be available at the times when children need them most: in the summer, over weekends and school vacations, afterschool and at home.

10. Strategy Development
· Over the course of 5 months, an interdepartmental team of Feeding America staff, Network members, and stakeholders met to develop a 5-year Child Hunger Strategy to address the gaps in service to children.
· This team assessed challenges, weighed potential solutions, and developed a set of recommendations for how to best serve children in need.
· The team recommended a shift in focus to addressing needs in 4 key time periods:

11. Strategy Development Summer At Home Weekends and After School
Vacations
After School

12. The Goal
By 2014, increase access to meals for children in need by 20% through integration and expansion of emergency and programmatic services.

13. Be part of the solution
Donate food, donate funds, donate time.